Populous (formerly HOK Sport) is leading the team comprising Allies & Morrison and Lifshutz Davidson Sandilands to deliver the project.

The consortium will work with LOCOG’s Venue and Infrastructure team, which is responsible for installing overlay to existing and newly built venues to ensure that they are fit for purpose for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The consortium will provide design and drawing production services to support the development of these overlay designs for London 2012 venues.

The scope of this work includes 36 competition venues located both inside and outside the Olympic Park as well as a large number of non-competition venues including the Olympic Village, and the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC).

London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe commented on the deal, “Ensuring venues are ship-shape for Games-time use is a logistical challenge. Both new and existing venues will require additional work to ensure that they are operational and meet the unique criteria of the Games. We welcome Populous to the team – and look forward to working closely with them to bring the Games venues to life for 2012. They have a fantastic sporting pedigree and will, I am sure, be a fantastic asset to the team.”

Populous senior principal Jerry Anderson said: “We are very excited to be able to bring our Overlay design experience to this incredible global event, and also to support London in hosting what I believe will be a spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games’’.

As part of the deal, approximately 100 employees from the consortium will work alongside LOCOG designers and project managers to deliver the architectural and overlay designs for the venues.